Police: India-bound flight diverted back to Toronto after passenger assaults flight attendant
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Police say an India-bound Air Canada flight was diverted back to Toronto after a man assaulted a flight attendant.
Police said Jaskaran Sidhu was arrested when the plane landed at Toronto Pearson International Airport early Wednesday. The 47-year-old Alberta man allegedly assaulted the flight attendant when the plane was over the Atlantic Ocean.
The flight is now scheduled to leave Pearson International Airport at noon EST.
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Sidhu has been charged with assault causing bodily harm, endangering the safety of an aircraft and two counts of mischief.
He was scheduled to appear in a Brampton, Ontario, court later Wednesday.